I suspect you may be correct there Gregor Samsa. If this isn’t the The Smiths/Morrissey album that I listen to the most, it must surely be up there in the top three. It is also the only Morrissey album that I can get away with playing in the background when non-Morrissey-fan friends visit – anything else and they tend to roll the eyes… ‘not bloody Morrissey again’. I of course relent, after all, I want to hold onto them…I think Vauxhall and I is the best studio album Morrissey has ever done, including the ones he did with The Smiths. It sits firmly on my list of the greatest albums of all time.
In a 1994 interview to Details magazine, Morrissey said of this song
"It was written about somebody I know in relation to their treatment toward me. (...) It is a lack of trust."
What can really be said? It'll be difficult to cough up insight about most of the Vauxhall tracks, as perfection hardly needs analysis. I always thought it was curious how similar the music of "Hold Onto Your Friends" is to the outro of "Pretty Girls Make Graves." Intentional or not,
I consider this the closest thing (along with "Let Me Kiss You") to what a good, modern Smiths song may have sounded like had they never broken up.
The lyric employs one of my favorite Morrissey tricks, wherein he knowingly admonishes the subject for things of which he's clearly guilty himself.
I do like it but, it’s not my favourite Morrissey album.I think Vauxhall and I is the best studio album Morrissey has ever done, including the ones he did with The Smiths. It sits firmly on my list of the greatest albums of all time.
What can really be said? It'll be difficult to cough up insight about most of the Vauxhall tracks, as perfection hardly needs analysis. I always thought it was curious how similar the music of "Hold Onto Your Friends" is to the outro of "Pretty Girls Make Graves." Intentional or not, I consider this the closest thing (along with "Let Me Kiss You") to what a good, modern Smiths song may have sounded like had they never broken up.
The lyric employs one of my favorite Morrissey tricks, wherein he knowingly admonishes the subject for things of which he's clearly guilty himself.
I get the feeling Alain was listening to a lot of Smiths when writing songs for this album, you can also hear it in Ignore Me and WDYFOFYourself, especially the earlier guitar version.
I didn’t say it was top of my list of favorite albums.I do like it but, it’s not my favourite Morrissey album.
I also think there are a couple of other artists who have bettered Vauxhall (IMO)
Still a top LP but I know it better